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The Seven Deadly Sins (The Fox's Sin of Greed)

Ban was the man. Undead Ban, as he was popularly called in Nanatsu no Taizai, was a bandit who stole water from the fountain of life. This guy's greed made him covet a drink that would curse him with immortality, the inability to die despite being killed. This left an endless void in his soul because he could never die to be with his beloved Elaine on the other side. Damn I love cartoons fantasies so much!!!

 Moving forward, this evening's healing process is to pick on my Sin of Greed.

 "I want the money, cars and the clothes, the h**s, I suppose... I just wanna be successful". I wish he got that right about success. That song just fueled the desire to want more of the very things I had enough of. You see God is sufficient for each and every one of our souls. If he can provide for the birds that do not reap or sow, are we not much more valuable than these birds? (cf. Matt VI:26). I remember how often I kept hearing God speak in a soft strong tone through his child saying "...you can't afford to move into a new house... you can't afford to get a new TV... you can't afford to compare yourself to..." I wanted all these things and yet I didn't need any of it. I couldn't get it, at least not yet. I was so greedy I watched the one thing I wanted the most in the world slip out of my arms. You see, I wanted the love of one woman to be forever but my greed and desire for more than just her made me lose focus on keeping that one person happy. I thought I could create a better life for us by having more: more money, more money, just more freaking money. As I chased the "power of more", I became less available and less loving and soon less loved by her. I became undead and days upon days of searching couldn't fill the new void that greed had given me. Until the fall of the Lion's sin I was just too blind to realise the dangers of the Sin of the Fox. I was alive but I wasn't living. I couldn't live because the very essence I had for living was taken from me. If I got any benefits from the lessons of the wages from the Fox's sin, it is that "since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won't he also give us everything else?" (cf. Rom VIII:23)

 It is my prayer that we would learn to depend on the providence of the Almighty Father and our greed would not make us so blind we are unable to count our blessings and be thankful to God for them. In Jesus's mighty name. Amen

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